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  • Emma
    HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. β€˜The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself…’ Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in matchmaking those around her, with no apparent care for her own...
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    A special edition from Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Featuring beautiful heritage wallpaper patterns from Jane Austen's own home in Hampshire, these collectable paperback editions are a must for all Jane Austen fans. Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners....
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  • Dead Man’s Folly
    Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie is a classic murder mystery, now presented as a sumptuous special edition hardback. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fΓͺte, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous...
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  • Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment is the story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. Raskolnikov, a poor student, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, and then has to face up to the moral consequences of his actions. The novel is compelling and rewarding, full of meaning and symbolism, and raises profound questions about the individual and society, and the nature...
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    Unpacking My Library
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories. From intimate musings on his book collection to a dream-like trip through the bustling streets of Marseille, each of these essays offers a compelling journey into the mind of one...
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    Tristessa
    Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: 'a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City...
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    Transformation
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider's claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him.' His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Cortese stalks the desolate Genoese coast. A monstrous creature, shipwrecked by a ferocious storm, offers him unimaginable wealth to exchange...
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    The Umbrella
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The Umbrella evokes the delicate interplay of emotion and subtle storytelling. In the words of the author: "Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only came in contact with by...
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    The Time Machine
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely new genre and did it better than any of his imitators. An immediate bestseller, it has...
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    The Story of an Hour
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. Nuns, maidens, adventurers β€” with electricity, The Story of an Hour collects stories of female freedom, as Kate Chopin asks the question: what...
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    The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M. R. James. This selection gives the reader a flavour of his strange gifts. Often, the ghost is barely glimpsed and yet somehow sticks with the reader for years, making ordinary rooms...
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    The Seventh Voyage
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Journey into space with Polish sci-fi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy's cosmic adventure The Seventh Voyage are reminiscent of Douglas Adams. Meanwhile, the spectral whispers haunting Pirx the Pilot as he navigates his spaceship to Mars in Terminus, echo the author's masterpiece Solaris. Then The Mask introduces...
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    The Rich Boy
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . . In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald's short stories, we meet Anson Hunter, The Rich Boy, whose opulent, haunting world paints a vivid portrait of the American elite. Absolution offers a poignant glimpse...
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    The Price of Freedom
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom brings together ten of his best stories, focusing on human voices from the religious fracture that forever unhinged...
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    The New Dress
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart." In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance - a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prompts a questioning...
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    The Maverick Pig
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The Maverick Pig by Wang Xiaobo is razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny. Wang Xiaobo's essays have established him as one of China's most popularβ€”and subversiveβ€”writers. These writings range from the political power of silence to the irrepressible spirit of a pig he met while working in a commune. These reflections on...
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    The Lady Bandit
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Priests with shotguns, scheming lovers, and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo BazΓ‘n, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual, and feminist. These stories paint a rich and variegated image of Old Spain β€” sometimes tender, often provocative, always entertaining. But if you decide to visit, beware the Lady Bandit,...
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    The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen's breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian, Mary, Queen of Scots is a scandalously wronged victim, Elizabeth I is a wicked villain, and...
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    The Fire Next Time
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the...
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    The Escape of Arsène Lupin
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody's assistance.' In this thrilling collection, we meet ArsΓ¨ne Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise – or, as some would have it, a notorious criminal. We follow him on a series of high-stakes adventures, from ingenious heists of invaluable paintings to daring...
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    The Emperor's New Clothes
    The Emperor's New Clothes is part of a collection of 90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Many years ago, there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly... Jewels in storytelling, these magical fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen were inspired by his own life...
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    The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rank. A delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifying husband who causes his wife's suicide; a witness to a young girl's ruin; a writer who stretches out on a gravestone and listens...
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    The Dreaming Child
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books As for me I have one ambition only- to invent stories, very beautiful stories Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and imaginative visions of war, longing and tender love. Here, an orphan boy creates an elaborate fantasy of a life of grandeur, a feudal...
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    The Daemon Lover
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books It's terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to buy flowers this morning. Terribly important. Sometimes, the person you think you love isn't who they seem. And sometimes, you can be your own deception. Spanning Shirley Jackson's entire career, these devilish tales...
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    The Country of the Pointed Firs
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books A young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants instead β€” their occupation with memory and tradition, their vibrant female friendships, and the idyll of the landscape that informs their sense of togetherness. A classic...
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    The Chimes
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are irredeemable. But, on New Year's Eve, summoned to the church tower by a mysterious chiming, Trotty witnesses his own death and is taken on a ghostly journey that will...
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    The Burial of the Rats
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own dead. This spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showcases five haunting tales, including the newly discovered Gibbet Hill. From Dracula's Guest, thought by many to be the original excised opening of Dracula itself, to...
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    The Broken Nest
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories - The Broken Nest and Dead or Alive - he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast, implosion of two perfect Bengali households. No-one understands each other; everything is misconstrued; all is...
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    The Blazing World
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a visionβ€”there was a crack in reality at the North Pole leading to a utopian parallel universe, where gender roles, scientific orthodoxy, and political norms had been razed to...
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    Strange News from Another Planet
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit... A visitor to a zoo discovers he can understand the animals talking, a young man turns into a mountain, and a bird guides a boy to...
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    Some Japanese Ghosts
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beatβ€”yet there were no other signs of death. The phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore in Some Japanese Ghosts are driven back into the world of the living. Mysterious brides melt into mist, paintings come alive, and man-eating goblins...
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    Secretary
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, and a teenager entering the workplaceβ€”these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and the inner lives of women negotiating their precarious place in the world. In these coolly compelling and quietly devastating stories,...
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    Revenge
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy! A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah, and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer, and the author himself, as...
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    Requiem
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has an appointment to meet someone by the quayside. But when his guest does not arrive, he spends the day wandering the deserted city, encountering some...
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    Reflections in a Golden Eye
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain's wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Pendertonβ€”unhappily married to the unfaithful Leonoraβ€”in turn erotically fixates on Williams. Spare, muscular and sensual, with the dramatic vision of a Greek myth, Carson McCullers'...
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    October Nights
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books In October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris - a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included in this volume is Sylvie, his haunting novella of love and memory, the 'masterpiece' that inspired Proust to write In Search of Lost Time. Together, these works...
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    Night Owls
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken. Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthouse room, a forlorn traveller turns his ear to the riotous tale spun by the garrulous, meddlesome, inane and utterly...
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    Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Wu Cheng'en's 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell's witty and charismatic translation, we meet one of its heroes - Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, whose powers include shape-shifting, immortality, and being incredibly rude. Though...
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    Lamb to the Slaughter
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His storiesβ€”many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpectedβ€”take us into a world that is shocking, cruelly funny, and always has a sinister edge. What if plants could feel pain? What kind of father would bet his...
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    Lady L.
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale In the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by irritatingly polite relatives and hopeless sycophants, Lady L. is celebrating her eightieth birthday. But as the guests disperse, she feels the undeniable pull...
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    Jasmine Tea
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books But how sweet a fruit the 'suppose' must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a lychee but without the pit, sparkling and light green - a fruit that hides the tart within the sweet. In this haunting collection of stories, a young man's obsession...
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    Voyage in the Dark
    A tragic tale of a young woman's descent into isolation and despair, inspired by Jean Rhys's own experiences. First published in 1934, Voyage in the Dark is the story of an unhappy love affair, a portrait of a hypocritical society, and an exploration of exile and breakdown; all written in Jean Rhys's hauntingly simple and beautiful style. Eighteen, on her...
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    How I Came to Know Fish
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman's sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries - sleep and fishing. Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections - from magical fishing trips to the rivers and ponds of Bustehrad to his charismatic father's eccentric business ventures -...
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    Horsie
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you. I'll see you in hell first. Why, thank you, I'd like to awfully, but I'm having labour pains. Acerbic, pithy and vibrant, Dorothy Parker's writings capture the dizzying decadence of...
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    Hop-Frog
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Edgar Allan Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilisingly terse sketcher of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original...
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    Family Happiness
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I'm not the sort of husband you dream of when you're walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be a disaster, wouldn't it?' How does love die? This question lies at the heart of Tolstoy's desperately sad novella. It tells the story of seventeen-year-old Masha...
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    Chess
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books My delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my waking hours but also came to invade my sleep. I could think of nothing but chess, I thought only in chess moves...
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    Baron Bagge
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a peaceful, otherworldly country where festivities are in full swing... Alexander Lernet-Holenia, championed in his lifetime...
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    A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here are some of his finest personal essays about Algeria and its environs, including the luminous 'Nuptials at Tipasa', one of his earliest works...
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    A Lost Lady
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . . A Lost Lady by Willa Cather tells the story of Marian Forrester, a captivating woman who enchants everyone around herβ€”her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her...
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    All God's Chillun Got Pride
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for armed robbery. Selected here are some of his best storiesβ€”from a satirical tale about a student bet that purportedly...
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    A Hunger-Artist
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people's participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later days there were season-ticket holders who sat for days on end in front of his little cage. Reading these...
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    After Midnight
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Arrested in Cologne for remarking that the FΓΌhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from over. Her best friend Gerti has fallen for a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted, and her own aunt could turn her in to the...
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    A Dog's Heart
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov's topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, thieve, chase women, and recite every swear word in Russian. The perfect candidate for...
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    A Dill Pickle
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bear. Katherine Mansfield was a magician of the short story, whose work was described by Virginia Woolf as 'the only writing I have ever been jealous of'. These eight tales show her gift...
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    A Confirmed Bachelor
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web...
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  • Dumb Witness
    Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie features Hercule Poirot, who has beaten thieves and murderers, but has he finally met his match with Bob the dog? This brand new Special Edition hardback celebrates Poirot's famous canine mystery, perfect for dog-loving Agatha Christie fans. A simple accident? Or attempted murder? Everyone blamed the dog. When a wealthy spinster trips on the stairs,...
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    Jane Eyre
    Launching a major new paperback series - Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontΓ« 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman who...
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  • The Last Kingdom
    The first book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. The Last Kingdom, as seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of his own Saxon people, Uhtred...
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  • Rhyme Stew
    Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry comes alive with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations alongside archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. I think our loving Mum and Dad Are plotting some rather bad. This beautiful edition of Rhyme Stew, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald...
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  • Dirty Beasts
    Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers features Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. Shh! Listen! What is that I hear Gallumphing softly up the stair? This beautiful edition of Dirty Beasts, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum...
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  • Danny the Champion of the World
    Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry is presented with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had. This beautiful edition of Danny the Champion of the World, part of The Roald Dahl...
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  • The Big Sleep
    A beautiful repackage of Chandler's most famous and popular novel of all - part of the Chandler reissue series. Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care...
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    Lolita
    Vladimir Nabokov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or...
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  • The Nature of Middle-earth
    First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien’s magnificent world. It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937...
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